Ryan Elder
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Sorry for not specifying.
A slider is a device that moves the camera along rails. Some like this one, have motors on to make them move more fluently at the same fixed speed.
The mic is aimed at the actors mouths, on a boom about 1-2 feet away, depending on the shot.
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I don’t think the rate stretch tool or interpret footage back to 60 will work though, cause 36 frames are now missing, after the repair is done. So it won’t be able to interpret it back now therefore, will it?
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Okay thanks. I know this isn’t a cinematography question but is there anything I could be doing differently with the sound as well?
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Okay thanks. However, I am not the producer and writer though. The producer also wrote the script, and in the script the found footage is actually in there. For example, the wheel of fortune with the religions on it, is actually in the script.
The stock footage of the guillotine execution is in the script. So I don’t know if it’s my place as the director and editor, to step on the writer/producer’s script and take out what’s written in it.
What do you think, is it my call, or does the producer have say?
As for going out and getting footage of my own, I tried that already and couldn’t really find a lot, but I can try more. I don’t think buildings simply will cut it though… maybe statues or something… not sure. This is why I used found footage.
Also, the DP is done and we are in post production. I don’t know if I could ask the producer to get the DP back. We could try, but if not, we will have to get a new DP. Will the old DP be okay with that do you think, if we got someone new to take over for new footage, since this wasn’t in the original plan? Is it our place to get a new DP after production was suppose to be wrapped?
How do other documentary filmmakers use found footage and make it work though? What are they doing differently?
As for the opening, what if I just let the title play out, before the voice starts, would that be better?
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In Film School we studied the six types of documentary modes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_mode
It sounds like this one would be the ‘Observative Mode’ type.
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Okay thanks! I had pauses in the pacing before, but I felt that they felt awkward. I mean a pause here and there is okay, like what I have, but watching an actor just sitting there paused, over and over again, in between sections, just feels awkard to me. Is there any trick to having actors pause for longer amounts of time, and more frequently without it being awkward?
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How am I making the film ‘busy’ just to fill out time exactly?
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Okay thanks, but I’m not sure what you mean. How am I delivering too much at once exactly?
What do you mean when you say I don’t have enough pacing in between words? The actor pauses a lot when he talks so isn’t that enough natural pacing?
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But how do I avoid using them? It seems that they are in lots of places, and it’s not a matter of not using them, it’s a matter of knowing how to turn a hard cut into a soft cut.
The only places they exist are during locations changes. How do editors transition from one location to the next without it cutting so jarringly?
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Okay thanks, but what do you think of it besides the score?